[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Brian Blake]

Luis,

Thank you!!

Copying directly from DriveWire to the SuperIDE is a feature that's been 
sorely missed with the SuperIDE/ HDB-DOS/DriveWire trifecta. We've had 
the ability to copy from PC to real floppy (using DriveWire), then from 
floppy to SuperIDE within HDB-DOS. It has always been useful, but, also 
inconvenient when you're in a hurry.


I shudder to even send the rest of this, but...

The following may well sound like I'm trying to start a war here, but, 
I'm not - more like just ranting a bit about what could've been.
It may also sound like I'm trying to hi-jack a thread - that much might 
be true... ;-)

This app that Luis wrote is one area where I felt Roger gave us more 
flexibility with CoCoNet. CoCoNet had (has) the ability to detect most 
forms of storage on your CoCo system (floppy, SIO cable, Bluetooth, 
DrivePak) and could move disk images around at your will. Meaning you 
could copy from PC based disk images to a DrivePak or floppy drive and 
vice-versa without having to stop and boot to another version of the OS 
to finish the task. Yes, the commands to mount a disk hosted on any of 
the devices CoCoNet could detect were a freaking nightmare to type into 
the CoCo since it completely lacked a server based GUI like DW 3 or 4 
for disk image mounting - and typos SUCKED! Worked great with RS-DOS 
based disks - lacked much in the way of OS-9 support.

And this is where I wished, hoped and prayed that Roger and the Cloud 9 
guys would've buried the hatchet and collaborated on this - Roger had 
discussed wanting to add SuperIDE support to CoCoNet. And if I'm not 
mistaken, Aaron had offered to write a GUI for the CoCoNet server at one 
point. But I guess whatever the issues there were between them went too 
deep.

Now with the sale of the DrivePak 'business' and subsequently CoCoNet, I 
have doubts that any further development on CoCoNet will occur. I did 
inquire with the buyer regarding future DrivePak orders; he stated he 
was concentrating on sending out the back ordered units before taking 
new orders. He also stated he should be ready to take new orders by 
'early next year'.

(I think a great many people would be appreciative if those who are on 
the waiting list would let us know if the DrivePaks actually start to 
arrive)

I sent a second email inquiring about future development of CoCoNet and 
have received no response at all - that was on November 14th.


Anyway, thanks again, Luis!! Another cool app that makes CoCo life a bit 
easier.


Brian



On 12/3/2012 10:02 AM, Luis Antoniosi wrote:
> Just a video showing how it works:
>
> http://youtu.be/rqZKG7LQYBI
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Luis Antoniosi <retrocanada76 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I made this new tool WIRED after my testings with basic. It allows you
>> to copy decb disks from and to the superIDE (or rgb-dos) using
>> drivewire.
>>
>> No more needed for unplugging the CF and take the risk to bend a pin
>> on side connector.
>>
>> Now it works with Coco1, coco2 and coco3 speeds.
>>
>> site:
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/wired
>>
>> Enjoy.
>>
>> --
>> Panasonic FSA1-WSX
>> Commodore 64
>> Commodore 64C
>> Commodore 128
>> Apple //c
>> TRS-Color Computer 2
>> TRS-Color Computer 3
>> TI-99/4A
>> ..and more coming!
>
>